Sentence examples for lire you from inspiring English sources

But even if you pay for your Italian fashions or French meals in francs or lire, you are still using euros, since the national currencies, like French francs and Italian lire, are now mere denominations of the euro.

Pesos and francs and lire, you name it, were stable in relation to each other.

When he'd saved money from his shop, he knew how he wanted to spend it: "In the 50s, with 30 liras you could buy a dunam of land.

For a mere 2.8 lira, you can cruise down the Bosporus Strait past Istanbul's most famous monuments — including the Galata Tower, the Hagia Sophia cathedral and the Blue Mosque — into the shimmering Sea of Marmara and out to a small nearby archipelago known as the Princes Islandss.

A tumbledown castle in Italy still costs a couple of billion lire, if you ask the buyer who wants to impress his girlfriend in Milan.

Spend millions of lire and, whatever you choose, you'll come home looking and feeling like a million dollars.

"You go into a church, put your 500 lire in and you come face to face with a Caravaggio; it is absolutely immediate.

Today a dollar will get you 680,000 lire.

There, by the bus depot, catch a minibus (5 lira) to take you to the dirt road leading to Ephesus's Lower Gate, about 10 minutes away on foot.

Insider Tip: Right outside the property, a twice-daily tourist boat for 25 lira will take you on a five-hour excursion to the mouth of the Black Sea and back.

In the event you paid 27.68 billion lire.